Friday, July 09, 2021

"Brian Kemp is wearing a shirt with his name on it"

Forget the fact Gov. Kemp has to have his name stitched on his shirts, and read they chyron.

My vaccine card has a CDC logo on it.  I presume the record of my vaccination is not just on that card, because both times I checked in to get my shots and a nice person with a computer was involved.  Same with my wife, who got hers at a "drive-through" clinic.  We both registered ahead of time to schedule appointments.  I just assume all of that information is stored.

Which means the "government" "knows" (insofar as a record is knowledge.  I don't think anything recorded is "knowledge" unless a person accesses it) I've been vaccinated.  Then again, just to attend public schools, I had a vaccination record that the "government" (what else does "Public schools" mean in America?) had that information, too.  Somehow my freedom was not impeded and socialism did not rise like a dark miasma to cover the land in despair and cultish thought control.


But many residents and visitors to the area simply don't care, and some health experts suspect some Donald Trump supporters are refusing to get vaccinated to undermine President Joe Biden's goals.

"If COVID didn't get me the first time, I doubt I'll get it now," said one Ozarks resident, who asked for anonymity for fear of professional retaliation. "We believe in freedom in the Ozarks."

Are we equally free to refuse to spend "blood and treasure" (how many hospital employees will you expose to the D variant?) when you get sick and need treatment?  Can we be as selfish and uncaring about others as you obviously are?  Or do you not presume it works that way?  If Kristofferson was right and "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose," then maybe we should join your cult of selfishness and decide we have the freedom to let you die in a ditch.

Or we could just throw random words at the problem:
Say it often enough and one of those has gotta stick, right? Although I'm pretty sure it works that way in his district.  Ken Paxton has been a blithering idiot and an embarassment to the state of Texas for two terms now, and he's running for a third one.  The lady in the radio story I heard today said Paxton was "conservative," and that's all she needed to know about him to back his re-election.  Words don't mean anything; only labels do.

It really is a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down.
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